The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 76
The King danced again with the beautiful maiden, and thought she had never looked so beautiful.
Who acts: King, cook · What happens: dance, think, not look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 danced | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 maiden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maiden | amod |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 danced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 looked | advmod |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the King | again | with the beautiful maiden | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the King not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not look | past · perfect | cook | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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